from Woman's Realm, September 1991

by Constance Craig Smith

"For the last 30 years I've lived in America, first in Los Angeles, then
in New York, and then, since 1986, in Los Angeles. I think I would have had a
different career if I'd gone back to London, probably would have done much more
theatre. But I prefer the lifestyle in Los Angeles, and my wife, Sandra, prefers
it there, despite everything that's happened there.

"There's really not much point in proselytizing about LA. People either
love it or hate it— the traffic, the smog, the perpetually sunny weather. I
can do without the first two, but I don't mind the other one. Especially when
the sun lights up Sandy's hair."

Sandy, of course, is Sandy Ludlow. She and David met when he was working on The
Man From U.N.C.L.E. and she guest-starred in an episode with the other
Honeybears. "It was love at first sight," David says, "Although
it took us some twenty years to admit it to ourselves. Of course, all our
friends claim they knew it all along. Why couldn't they have told us?

"In any case, our marriage was splashed all over the media, so there's
no need to go into it. Our daughter, Madeline, is nearly 11 now, and I've really
enjoyed being with her every step of the way— even when her mother and I
weren't together as a couple, we were in each other's lives as friends. I never
had the chance with my other children... I missed so much with them, that I tend
to spoil Madeline. Not that she minds, of course."

His two sons by his first wife, Jill Ireland, visit them whenever they can.
Val, 26, is a guitar player with Wilson Philips. Paul, 32, is an underwater
photographer. His children with his second wife, Kathie Carpenter, spend school
vacations with David and Sandy. Peter, 20, attends university in the south,
while Sophie, "16-going-on-30", is at boarding school. Since Sandy's
daughter from her first marriage to ex-Monkee Davy Jones lives with them as
well, "You can imagine it gets rather crowded around the beach house every
summer."